What Makes an Effective Teacher?
Since the Los Angeles Times made public a database of teacher rankings – based on “value added” measurements of student test scores – teacher evaluation has become a hot-button issue in the city. “L.A. is really ground zero of this whole debate,” said Louis Freedberg, an education reporter for California Watch. “As they say, the whole world is watching what you do here.” In an event sponsored by the California Community Foundation, Freedberg joined Los Angeles Unified School District Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, UCLA’s Karen Hunter Quartz, and Families in …
